Smart People, smart play

Smart People, Lydia Diamond's new play at the Huntington Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts, is a smart, funny, profound and highly polished play that I don't hesitate to recommend.  Diamond, whose award-winning play Stick Fly played at the Huntington four years ago before going on to Broadway, writes a lot about race and …

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PC Police Trivialize Legitimate Issue

Political correctness run amuck:  President Obama felt compelled to apologize to California Attorney General Kamela Harris for calling her "by far the best looking attorney general in the country."  Frankly, the only person who might legitimately  feel slighted is Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, a "good looking" woman in her own right.  But those who …

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